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So who is this $100,000 mystery buyer for iPhone unlocking software?
That's a view of the iPhone menu on an unlocked device configured to run on T-Mobile. I said T-Mobile, y'all, not AT&T, which iPhone has an exclusive U.S. deal with up until 2012. Engadget's reporting that some "mystery buyer" has...
Tags: Software, Apple iPhone, America Online Inc., Engadget, Russell Shaw
Blog posts 2007-08-28
So long and thanks for all the fish
I've had an interesting and varied journey through the sphere as a blogger with the exceptional good fortune to have been involved with three great communities of writers at the OfficeZealot.com portal, Weblogs, Inc., and now ZDNet. Working in these networked environments, I've had the opportunity to cover a variety...
Tags: Mobile, Network, Marc Orchant
Blog posts 2007-08-25
Mahalo: A human-powered search directory
Jason Calacanis of Weblogs Inc. now part of AOL fame launched Mahalo at the D conference this afternoon, with the idea that human-generated search results for the most common queries can trump machine-generated results and not Mahalo will leave the vast majority, the long tail of queries to Google.It's the...
Tags: D5, General, Search
Blog posts 2007-05-30
Riffing on "Instant Journalism"
I read Andy Abramsons post on Instant Journalism yesterday and was amazed at the amount of traction and comment it generated on a Saturday traditionally a pretty slow day measured in blog reflex speed. He covers a lot of ground in discussing the implications of mobile bloggers (and evolved writers...
Tags: Blogging, Podcasts, Instant Journalism
Blog posts 2007-01-07
OK - I give up - here's my five things
Now its Oliver whos tagged me in this five things meme running rampant in blogspace. This is the third time someones tagged me recently and, since my original response was posted on a former blog at Weblogs, Inc. that is no longer active, I surrender and will play along -...
Tags: Blogs
Blog posts 2006-12-28
Calacanis' AOL resignation: A new era of brutal candor for big companies?
As of the time that I started writing this blog post,its the top story on Techmeme right now. If youre reading this post to get some other insight into Jason Calacanis the man or AOL the company now that Calacanis (founder of Weblogs, Inc. which was eventually acquired by AOL)...
Tags: General, Calacanis
Blog posts 2006-11-17
Jason Calacanis talks about leaving AOL and what's next
Jason Calacanis sold his company Weblogs, Inc. to AOL last year for about $25 million, was given wide berth to groove at the behemoth by AOL CEO Jonathan Miller, stirred up the company, and this week decided to leave the company on the heels of Jonathan Miller getting axed, replaced...
Tags: General, America Online Inc., Jason, Jonathan Miller
Blog posts 2006-11-17
Calacanis moving on
Theres a lot of buzzing about Jason Calacanis announcement that hes leaving AOL in the wake of Jonathan Millers departure. Prior to joining ZDnet, I worked with Jason at Weblogs, Inc. for a couple of years, writing three blogs for the network. Jason was a great guy to work for...
Tags: Blogs, Jason
Blog posts 2006-11-17
Update from AOL's Calacanis on OpenRide
I just got an e-mail from Jason Calacanis about my post regarding the bundling of AOL Desktop Search in their new OpenRide integrated client which combines e-mail, browsing, instant messaging, and a media player. According to Jason, the desktop search component is being unbundled and was originally included to support...
Tags: America Online Inc., OpenRide
Blog posts 2006-10-06
Web 2.0 start-up strategy: sell-out big
In “Web 2.0 champions don't champion business plans” I noted that Web 2.0 impresario Michael “TechCrunch” Arrington is “making money by promoting Web 2.0 start-ups lacking business plans”:TechCrunch cheerleads daily on behalf of twenty something software developers rapidly prototyping cool Web 2.0 apps. According to TechCrunch, it is:'dedicated to obsessively...
Tags: Web, Web 2.0
Blog posts 2006-09-14
TechCrunch's Arrington shares his winners and losers
TechCruncher Mike Arrington opened the second day of The Future of Web Apps Summit with his picks of Web 2.0 winners and losers and gives advice to wouldbe startups. He also announced the next blog in the TechCrunch family, which will cover enterprise products. Winners got acquired: Writely, del.icio.us, Userplane,...
Tags: Web 2.0 Winners, loser, TechCrunch
Blog posts 2006-09-14
The three reasons AOL is choosing PhoneLine over TotalTalk
I totally agree with Andy's assessment that AOL is winding down its TotalTalk VoIP service in favor of AIM PhoneLine. For the record, TotalTalk will be, well, totally gone November 30. Three big reasons why what AOL is doing makes sense to me. First of all, there's...
Tags: America Online Inc., AOL TotalTalk
Blog posts 2006-09-01
Publishing 2.0: GigaOm and CrunchNetwork
The new tech publishing moguls, following in the footsteps of Jason Calacanis' Weblogs Inc. and Nick Denton's Gawker network, are moving fast to expand their networks and coverage. The newly funded Om Malik has added several writers and just launched a new redesign for his GigaOm site, which now has...
Tags: CrunchNetwork, network
Blog posts 2006-08-10
Do you work on a virtual team?
You might be surprised. In two seminar engagements this week, it came as more than a little surprise to some of the people in attendance that they do, in fact, work on at least one virtual team. Most of the educators I spent two days with at the Getting Things...
Tags: team, virtual team
Blog posts 2006-07-21
A Hamburger Today
Now that BloggerCon is over, I'm going to start releasing some of the backlog of Attention Deficit Theatre and Gillmor Gangs that have built up. Those who, like me, stayed in bed this morning and listened to the ConCast were treated to a remarkable string of interesting stuff, none of...
Tags: Doc, Mike Arrington, Bloggercon
Blog posts 2006-06-25
BloggerCon: Bloggers and money
John Palfrey from the Berkman Center at the Harvard Law School led a discussion about how to making money through blogging. Here is his lead in to the topic:If you are a blogger, how do you go about making some money from your work? One obvious answer is the classic...
Tags: blogger, blogging, blog
Blog posts 2006-06-24
Article describes how to wire VoIP to your phone jacks
Very useful new post on Engadget entitled How-To: Wiring VoIP to your phone jacks.In this piece, Engadget's Will O'Brien describes and illustrates the process. The Engadget sketch at the top of this post depicts how this setup will look when it is completed."The idea for this one is pretty...
Tags: Engadget, telephone
Blog posts 2006-06-22
VC Tim Draper: SOX ruined our business
During an OnHollywood panel on exit strategies for private companies, mega-venture capitalist Tim Draper said that Sarbannes-Oxley is making it more difficult for startups to go public. "SOX has made it so a company can't go public with $20 million in revenue. SOX costs $3 milion a year. Entrepreneurs who...
Tags: Tim Draper, Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Blog posts 2006-05-04
The economic weight of the blogs
If you're one of the millions of active bloggers, you probably think that your own publication is one of the most important ones in the world. And from your point of view, you're certainly right. But have blogs changed the global economy? Only marginally, and in a minuscule way. Companies...
Tags: blogger, blog
Blog posts 2006-02-15
AOL renames itself 'AOL'
During an interview at the Web 2.0 conference, AOL CEO Jonathan Miller said that AOL was changing its official name from America Online to "AOL," solving the problem of taking the brand internationally without offending those countries that don't want to have an America Online in their midst. [video clip...
Tags: America Online Inc., Jonathan Miller
Blog posts 2005-10-06